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gales coming on them, too) are equally worthless. September 19th [a week
after this of Werner, tenth day after Bunzelwitz had ended], Romanzow
made his fiercest attempt that way; fiercest and last: furious
extremely, from 2 in the morning onwards; had for some time hold of the
important 'Green Redoubt;' but was still more furiously battered and
bayoneted out again, with the loss of above 3,000 men; and tried that
no farther. Impossible by that method. But he can stand between the
Eugen-Heyde people and supplies; and by obstinacy hunger them out: this,
added to the fruitless bombardment, is now his more or less fruitful
industry.

"In the end of September, the effects of Bunzelwitz are felt: Platen,
after burning the Butturlin Magazine at Gostyn, has hastened hither; in
what style we know. Blaten arrives 25th September; cuts his way through
Romanzow into Eugen's Camp, raises Eugen to about 15,000; [Tempelhof, v.
350.] renders Eugen, not to speak of Heyde, more impossible than ever.
Butturlin did truly send reinforcements, a 10,000, a 12,000, 'As many as
you like, my Romanzow!' And, in the beginning of October, came rolling
thitherward bodily; hoping, they say, to make a Maxen of it upon those
Eugens and Platens: but after a fortnight's survey of them, found there
was not the least feasibility;--and that he himself must go home, on the
score of hunger. Which he did, November 2d; leaving Romanzow reinforced
at discretion [40,000, but with him too provisions are fallen low],
and the advice, 'Cut off their supplies: time and famine are our sole
chances here!' Butturlin's new Russians, endless thousands of them,
under Fermor and others, infesting the roads from Stettin, are a great
comfort to Romanzow. Nor could any Eugen--with his Platens, Thaddens,
and utmost expenditure of skill and of valor and endurance, which are
still memorable in soldier-annals, [_Tagebuch der Unternehmungen
des Platenschen Corps vom September bis November 1761_ (Seyfarth,
_Beylagen,_ iii. 32-76). _Bericht von der Unternehmungen des
Thaddenschen Corps vom Jenner bis zum December 1761_ (ibid.
77-147).]--suffice to convey provisions through that disastrous
Wilderness of distances and difficulties.

"From Stettin, which lies southwest, through Treptow Gollnow and other
wild little Prussian Towns is about 100 miles; from Landsberg south,
150: Friedrich himself is well-nigh 300 miles away; in Stettin alone is
succor, could we hold the i